Karen Dalton: In My Own Time

[Plays May 13-23 as part of the MSPIFF40 Film Festival; for more information, log on to mspfilm.org/festivals/mspifffor full schedule.] Entertaining song snippets performed by Dalton highlight Richard Peete's and Robert Yapkowitz's engaging, fascinating, insightful, 85-minute, 2020 documentary that examines the career of talented, sultry, eccentric, blues and folk singer and guitarist Karen Dalton, who grew up with her southern Baptist parents in Oklahoma and was divorced twice by age 21, through archival film clips and photographs, reading excerpts from Karen Dalton's poems and diaries performed by Angela Olsen, colorful animation, and informative commentary by musicians and friends (such as Nick Cave, Peter Stampfel, Dick Weissman, John J. McCauley, Ian O'Neil, and Dan Hankin), journalist Ed Ochs, singers and songwriters Lacy J. Dalton and Vanessa Carlton, music executive Danny Goldberg, daughter Abralyn Baird and granddaughter Becky Baird, third husband Richard Tucker, composer Peter Walker, and friends Hunt Middleton, Susie Hankin, and Alexandra Ogsburg.
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